The Ever So Unlikely Tale of How ARM Came To Rule the World 111
pacopico writes "About 24 years ago, a tiny chip company came to life in a Cambridge, England barn. It was called ARM, and it looked quite unlike any other chip company that had come before it. Businessweek has just published something of an oral history on the weird things that took place to let ARM end up dominating the mobile revolution and rivaling Coke and McDonald's as the most prolific consumer product company on the planet. The story also looks at what ARM's new CEO needs to do not to mess things up."
Re:The future could be all in the fabs (Score:5, Insightful)
Intel's earnings last quarter were $2,630 M compared to $156 M for ARM holdings. So if ARM is "ruling the world" like this story claims, then ruling the world just ain't what it used to be. And I guess that is likely, if semiconductors stagnate as they seem to be.
Re:The future could be all in the fabs (Score:5, Insightful)
Good that someone's competing with Intel (Score:5, Insightful)
As someone who had a BBC Micro as his first computer (lovely machine for tinkering), it's nice to see the descendants of Acorn survive the juggernaut of the PC and x86. And long may it continue, the last thing we need is a vertically integrated colossus like Intel dominating everything, no matter how good their PC processors are.
Re:The future could be all in the fabs (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Fabs cost gazillions... (Score:5, Insightful)
Except when you include the pofits for making ARM chips from Qualcomn, Apple ( if Apple had actually seperated out their chip making division, ), Samsung, Allwinner etc. that number changes drastically.
The only company making money off Intel chips is Intel there are many companies making ARM chips and you have to include the companies making the chip.